At the end of a mixing session I export an MP3 and put it on my iPod. When I wake the next morning before I get out of bed I listen to it with pencil and paper to hand making notes as I listen through. If it sounds terrible my notes tell me what to work on in the next session. If I don't hear anything that prompts me to make a note and I am just carried along the mix is finished. Whichever outcome occurs I accept with equanimity. Reading Mixerman's books helped me get to that place.
Heck yeah! Thank you for sharing! Just as a confirmation to anybody reading this: I've noticed an incredible improvement in all fields of life (especially my composing and production) since I've started implementing this kind of thinking. This is the real deal. :) Get your ego in check, but do believe in yourself.
Great thoughts. Thanks Eric. Really relate to the up and down aspects. I feel like, "Great, this mix is sounding really good, I like the sounds and feel." Then I'll hear something like Kimbra, extremely well engineered, dynamic, and feel my mix is subpar.
I've spent way too many hours listening to roughs. You are right, it's not helpful, and I find it's just as bad if I'm actually enjoying what I'm hearing because I find it sets it in stone and it doesn't progress beyond half-done.
At the end of a mixing session I export an MP3 and put it on my iPod. When I wake the next morning before I get out of bed I listen to it with pencil and paper to hand making notes as I listen through. If it sounds terrible my notes tell me what to work on in the next session. If I don't hear anything that prompts me to make a note and I am just carried along the mix is finished. Whichever outcome occurs I accept with equanimity. Reading Mixerman's books helped me get to that place.
Heck yeah! Thank you for sharing! Just as a confirmation to anybody reading this: I've noticed an incredible improvement in all fields of life (especially my composing and production) since I've started implementing this kind of thinking. This is the real deal. :)
Get your ego in check, but do believe in yourself.
Great thoughts. Thanks Eric. Really relate to the up and down aspects. I feel like, "Great, this mix is sounding really good, I like the sounds and feel." Then I'll hear something like Kimbra, extremely well engineered, dynamic, and feel my mix is subpar.
I've spent way too many hours listening to roughs. You are right, it's not helpful, and I find it's just as bad if I'm actually enjoying what I'm hearing because I find it sets it in stone and it doesn't progress beyond half-done.